Photo: leli_ka/instagram.com The captured hostage in the Belgorod branch of the Bank "West" Alexander Vdovin surrendered to the police. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. The man voluntarily handed over the weapon under the guarantee of paying him savings. Negotiations were conducted by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Belgorod Region Viktor Pesterev.

US authorities allowed the sale of powder alcohol under the Palcohol brand. About this in the room of April 19 wrote The Daily Telegraph. A new product should go on sale in the fall of this year. It is planned that powder alcohol will be produced in seven species, including the tastes of the cocktails “Margarita” and “Cosmopolitan”, vodka and rum. In dry form, it can be used as a seasoning to other dishes, and adding water - as a drink.

The Spanish division of the Endemol television and producer company announced the intention to file a lawsuit against the Channel Channel. According to Gestmusic Endemol Spain, which is referred to by Vedomosti , the program “exactly”, which goes on the Russian television channel, copies “Youor Face Sounds Familiar”, the original Endemol format. The reincarnation show “exactly the same” started on the “Channel One” on March 2.

On April 21–24, the Faculty of Economics (Aud. 213) will take place of the John Weimark lecture (Gertrude Vanderbilt Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University (USA). This course of lectures is the introduction of the optimal nonlinear redistributed taxation into the version of the Mirrlees model, in the case when the population is of course. After the presentation of the main structure of the model, the main qualitative properties of its solution will be shown.

In Lugansk, the participants in the closed meeting of the "Narodnoye" chose the "People's Governor" Valery Bolotov, the commander of the so-called army of the southeast. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Bolotov himself. According to the news agency, representatives of the press at the meeting of the gathering, which took place in the captured building of the SBU Office, was not allowed.

The law providing for the introduction of irrevocable tariffs for flights was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was reported on the Kremlin website. In accordance with the law, carriers received the right to sell tickets at lower prices; The cost of such a irrevocable ticket is not returned to the passenger if he decided to refuse the trip.

In the shadow of the impending recession, it is increasingly difficult to balancing on slippery cornerstones of domestic economic policy: to adhere to the budget rule, increasing social expenses and maintaining moderate tax rates, expanding benefits for the oil and gas sector. But the Ministry of Finance believes that deofshorization of the economy and improving tax administration will help to save macroeconomic stability.

On the example of Latvia, different aspects of the influence of social capital will be considered The scientific and educational research laboratory in the field of business communications invites on April 21 to the seminar “The problem of social capital in post-Soviet countries: an example of Latvia”. Speaker: Ilona Bauman-Vitolin, the University of Latvia (Riga), the faculty of economics and management.

Irish physicists have developed a way to make graphene in domestic conditions - using a kitchen blender. The technique is described in an article on the industrial production of high -quality graphene, which is published in Nature Materials . A brief presentation of the method leads the Nature News blog. A special case of preparing two -dimensional carbon is described in the article to demonstrate the simplicity and cheapness of the proposed methodology.

The American pharmaceutical concern Pfizer offered to buy his British competitor Astrazeneca for more than 60 billion pounds (about $ 100 billion). The British The Sunday Times wrote about this in the room of April 20, citing unnamed sources. According to the newspaper, the parties held informal negotiations on the transaction, and Astrazeneca rejected the proposal of Pfizer. Both companies refused to comment on the publication of the newspaper.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that will facilitate the receipt of Russian citizenship for foreign citizens and stateless persons living in the Russian Federation and recognized by native speakers of the Russian language. Foreigners with the status of native speakers will be able to obtain Russian citizenship without compliance with the requirements for the life of the territory of Russia, determining the level of knowledge of the Russian language and representing a residence permit.

The Moscow City Hall applied for a procession and rally on May 6 in support of the "Prisoners of Bolotnaya." About this with reference to the member of the Committee of Protest Actions of Peter Tsarkov reports on April 21 ITAR-TASS. The procession, according to the plans of the applicants, should go from Kaluga to Bolotnaya Square, after which a rally will be held at 20:00. The collection of participants in the procession will begin at 18:00.

Traditions of horse monuments, lecture of art critic Galina Pavlova In his poems, A.S. Pushkin spoke of the miraculous memory of the people. The rulers and commanders of the past preferred more material horse monuments. We will talk about the tradition of equestrian monuments at the next meeting with the Moscow Arts Galina Pavlova. You can see the original interpretation of the horse sculpture in the works of Leonid Sustain, which are represented in the gallery.

This article was published in the new issue of the mobile magazine Slon Magazine - “Laws of Utopia: What New Cities Will Be Made of . ” All issues of our magazine can be downloaded for free on the AppStore In March 2014, at the Geneva Motor Show, Apple introduced CarPlay, a system for integrating the iPhone with the car. You can make calls, use maps with navigation, switch tracks in the player and work with messages in your smartphone using the touch screen on the car’s dashboard.

In the past twenty years, social sciences and philosophy in various ways have tried to resolve their relations - against the background of tension, even conflict, sometimes also against the background of preliminary consent, in respect of which it was clear that it contains many misunderstandings and was difficult to join with real practices of cognition and research programs, albeit not common to them, but at least just joining each other and join each other.